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Westerham (pte036/01.02.2005/15:30) - The total amount of e-mail classed as junk has increased to 90 per cent, according to figures from British e-mail management company Email Systems http://www.emailsystems.co.uk . As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, although virus traffic has slowed down, denial of service attacks are on the increase. Spam traffic is up by 40 per cent. Virus mail accounts for just over 15 per cent of all e-mail traffic analysis by the firm has found.
According to the company, it is no longer just multi-nationals that are in danger of so-called denial of service attacks, in which websites are bombarded by requests for information and made inaccessible. According to the company's analysis, the type of spam currently being sent has altered in the last few months. Half of spam received since Christmas has been health-related with gambling and porn on the increase. The number of scam mails, which offer people ways to make quick, easy money, has declined by 40 per cent.
"January is clearly a month when consumers are less motivated to purchase financial products or put money into dubious financial opportunities," said Neil Hammerton, managing director of Email Systems. "Spammers seem to have adapted their output to reflect this, focusing instead on medically motivated and pornographic offers, presumably intentionally intended to coincide with what is traditionally considered to be the bleakest month in the calendar," he said.
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